Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov

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Nearly eight years after Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was gunned down in an elevator near her apartment, authorities appear to have made little progress identifying the mastermind behind her murder. Although five men were sentenced to lengthy prison terms on June 9 for their roles in the slaying of the Novaya Gazeta journalist, her family and friends say Russian officials are dragging their feet in finding the real culprit.

More
than seven years after the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, the prominent Novaya Gazeta journalist, a jury is
hearing the case against five defendants in the killing. The suspects were
first announced in 2011, but proceedings did not begin until July 2013, amid controversy. Three of the current defendants
were earlier acquitted of Politkovskaya's murder in a 2009 trial.

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Philippine journalist Gerardo Ortega, in
2011, had been convicted and sentenced to life for the crime.

New York, December 17, 2012--The Committee to Protect
Journalists today called for a retrial of a key defendant in the murder of Anna
Politkovskaya. The defendant, a former senior police official, was sentenced
Friday in a deal that Politkovskaya's family and colleagues fear will not
ultimately identify the crime's true masterminds.

Moscow City Court wrapped up the two-day, closed trial of former
police Lt. Col. Dmitry
Pavlyuchenkov, who was originally charged with organizing the 2006 killing
of the prominent Novaya Gazeta correspondent
but, under a deal he cut with investigators, was tried only for being an
accomplice. According to the deal, Pavlyuchenkov was obligated to fully confess
his role in the murder and name its mastermind, Novaya Gazeta said. The journalist's family and colleagues say
Pavlyuchenkov did not fulfill those conditions, but their appeals to invalidate
the deal were denied.

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The trial of Dmitry
Pavlyuchenkov, a former police lieutenant colonel and a key suspect in the
2006 murder of prominent Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya,
started at Moscow City Court today under presiding Judge Aleksandr Zamashnyuk.

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New
York, July 16, 2012--Russian authorities have formally indicted retired police
Lt. Col. Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov on charges of complicity in the murder of Anna
Politkovskaya,
Russia's Investigative Committee said today. Politkovskaya,
an investigative reporter with the Moscow-based independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta and a fierce critic of the
war in Chechnya, was slain in her
apartment building on October 7, 2006.

Russia's Investigative Committee has named the
main suspects in the October 7, 2006,
murder of Anna Politkovskaya. But the news did not cause a stir. Russian
journalists reacted to it rather languidly; for instance, Novaya Gazeta, where
Politkovskaya worked, did not make any notable comments.

This is not because Politkovskaya's murder--now
five years old--has been forgotten in Russia. The tepid interest is mostly due
to the fact that there are no new names among the suspects.